Salvini and Berlusconi place men from Lega and Forza Italia as undersecretaries in key positions in important ministries. Paola Sacchi’s Note
Matteo Salvini places, with heavy delegations, all his forty-year-old “lions” and “lionesses” of the turning point of the National League first party; Silvio Berlusconi snatches equally important proxies where he inserts the faces and names of Forza Italia that relaunch the original blue spirit of the origins.
The two leaders of the center-right in government, the Northern League “captain” of the party with the highest consensus and the Cav, the founder of the coalition himself (of which Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy chose instead to be in the opposition), in the match of the undersecretaries and deputy ministers, make their mark felt. While, as was foreseen by the same mandate of wide autonomy conferred on him by the Quirinale, Mario Draghi’s “synthesis” was more decisive in the game of ministers, after having heard the parties.
There is no shortage of tensions with the Five Stars and also with the Democratic Party due to the inevitably characterizing presence of Lega and Forza Italia in the team that completed the formation of the Draghi executive. Where the numbers in parliament are reflected on the confidence obtained by the new prime minister at the helm of what he called “the government of the country”.
And the executive that put an end to the yellow-red majority. That majority that, however, Cinque Stelle, earthquake-stricken by a good number of dissidents, and the left, with the Pd leaders, seem to be struggling to define “former”. With the consequent loss of the centrality of before.
Nine assignments go to the Lega, six to Forza Italia, six to the Democratic Party, eleven to the Five Stars, two to Italia Viva.
For Salvini we can speak of the victory of the draft of his forty-year-olds, true Salvinians, who grew up with him and already valued by him in the Conte 1 party and government. One could call Salvini’s sentries in key ministries such as that of the forty-year-old leading Nicola Molteni who returns as undersecretary to the Ministry of the Interior, where he has already collaborated with the same Northern League leader who owns the Interior Ministry.
Molteni was one of the drafters of the security decrees. Among the most loyal forty-year-olds of “Matteo” Gianmarco Centinaio, former Minister of Agriculture in the yellow-green or yellow-blue executive, as he was called, who returns as undersecretary in the same department that I lead in Count 1. Hundred, now undersecretary to Agriculture it will be the “sentinel” of the pentastellato Stefano Patuanelli, his successor.
And the first time in the government instead, and in the role of weight, of another forty-year-old “lion” of Salvini, Alessandro Morelli, Deputy Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, a professional journalist who grew up with the Northern League leader in Milan where he retraced his footsteps as director of Radio Padania and then as director and group leader at the Municipality of Milan.
Morelli has always been one of the key organizers and animators of the Salvinian kermesse. But there is also another forty-year-old significant of the Salvinian turning point, former head of the Ugl union, Claudio Durigon, the Pontine deputy, a symbolic face of the presence of the League in Rome and Lazio, where he has chosen to open the headquarters in Via delle Botteghe. Dark, with obvious challenge to the Democratic Party due to the reference to the old PCI and its representation in the world of work. Durigon and the undersecretary for the economy.
And one of the most important leaders of Salvini’s League, Lucia Borgonzoni, returns to Culture as undersecretary, on whom the Northern League leader is aiming for the difficult challenge in Emilia-Romagna, where in any case the League already considers it a victory to have achieved the record threshold of over 40 percent.
The League, which snatches some more assignments from the Democratic Party, also has Vannia Gava in the Environment; Tiziana Nisini at work; Stefania Pucciarelli in Defense; Rossano Sasso to Education.
With the same criterion, all the “signature” of Berlusconi are carried by the new blue exponents of the government team who occupy decisive squares. Among these, the appointment as undersecretary to the Prime Minister with responsibility for Information and Publishing of Giuseppe Moles, a first-time blue, former close collaborator of the co-founder of Forza Italia, the liberal professor Antonio Martino, who was Minister of Defense and Foreign of the Berlusconi governments. Moles occupies the strategic role of Paolo Bonaiuti at Palazzo Chigi, the historical spokesperson of Cav. Of which his second spokesperson, after Bonaiuti, Deborah Bergamini, becomes undersecretary for relations with parliament.
A heavy blue, also of origins, Gilberto Pichetto Fratin and Deputy Minister for Economic Development, alongside the minister, pillar of the governing League, Giancarlo Giorgetti, with whom he has always been in tune. Pichetto was formerly FI group leader in the Senate in the Budget Committee. Pichetto was councilor of former president Enzo Ghigo, one of the 27 blue men of Publitalia, the first embryo of Forza Italia, for Industry in Piedmont.
Another strong man from the Berlusconi world becomes Undersecretary of Defense, very close to Berlusconi and his family, who has always been a home in Arcore, Giorgio Mule, formerly at the head of Mediaset newspapers and for a long time director of the news magazine Panorama when it was the leading weekly of the Mondadori Group, of which Marina Berlusconi is president, also head of Fininvest. After his election as deputy, Mule was also sole spokesperson for the FI groups in the Chamber and Senate.
The name of the former director of Panorama would have been contested by the Five Stars for the original hypothesis of an assignment to Publishing. And grumbles would also come from the Democratic Party. Suddenly returning anti-Berlusconi, after the praises of Cav
In the meantime, there is all the “signature” of Berlusconi in the appointment of Francesco Paolo Sisto, lawyer, deputy, who has always been at the forefront of the guarantee battle, as undersecretary of justice. Senator Francesco Battistoni and instead Undersecretary of Agriculture, senator, close to the national coordinator of FI Antonio Tajani, co-founder of the blue party.
